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Microsoft is holding an Xbox and Bethesda showcase on June 13th

Microsoft’s big E3 event to showcase upcoming Xbox and Bethesda games will kick off on Sunday, June 13th at 1PM ET. It will be a 90-minute show. “The show will be focused on games from Xbox Game Studios, Bethesda, and many game creators from our partners around the world,” Aaron Greenberg, general manager of Xbox… Read more

Western Digital’s Latest WD_Black SSDs Target Consoles, Affordable PCIe 4.0

Home News (Image credit: WD) While in-person Computex has been canceled, companies still have new product to roll out, and today Western Digital adds a trio of new drives to its gaming-focused WD_Black line. There are a pair of D30 Game Drives targeting next-gen consoles, with one model aiming for the PlayStation 5 market, and… Read more

Japan Asks Sony and TSMC to Build Fabs in the Country

Home News (Image credit: TSMC) Japanese authorities have proposed that Sony Group and TSMC invest $9.2 billion in a fab that will produce chips using a 20nm process technology, reports Reuters citing a report by Nikkan Kogyo newspaper. Just 15 years ago, Japanese companies like Panasonic and Renesas had leading-edge process technologies that could challenge those from… Read more

Watch two whole seconds of the increasingly real Uncharted movie

After more than a decade in development and several directors, release dates, and scripts, the Uncharted movie increasingly seems like it may actually, really, for real become a movie we can watch, thanks in part to our first actual footage (via Twitter user @Nibellion). The sneak peek is in this YouTube video from Sony (timestamped… Read more

Lockheed Martin and GM are working on an electric Moon buggy

Lockheed Martin and General Motors unveiled plans on Wednesday to build an autonomous buggy-like vehicle that future astronauts can use to zip around the surface of the Moon. The two companies collaborated to pitch a conceptual Lunar Terrain Vehicle to NASA’s Artemis program, a Moon exploration campaign that calls for various robots, vehicles, and scientific… Read more

Galax’s GeForce RTX 3060 LHR Hits the Market For Nearly $1,000

Home News (Image credit: Oversystem) When Nvidia and its partners introduced their Light Hash Rate versions of the latest GeForce RTX 30-series graphics cards, they wanted these boards to be cheaper than original products because of lower demand from miners. Palit Microsystems is among the first to start selling its Galax-branded GeForce RTX 3060 LHR… Read more

3D Printed RP2040 Powered Ring Measures CO2

Home News (Image credit: Guido Burger) Sometimes a little ingenuity is all it takes to solve a potentially life-threatening problem—such is the case with Guido Burger’s Raspberry Pi RP2040 CO2-detecting ring. This isn’t Burger’s first rodeo with RP2040, we previously covered his homemade Adafruit Feather RP2040 which he managed to assemble before the board officially… Read more

Waze names former Hotwire president Neha Parikh as CEO

Waze has a new CEO: Neha Parikh, the president of Hotwire and a board member of Carvana. Parikh replaces Noam Bardin, who stepped down as CEO of the Google-owned navigation service last November after leading the company for 12 years. Parikh will join Waze as CEO starting in June, the company says. She is a… Read more

Open-world RPG Pokémon Legends: Arceus is launching January 28th, 2022

Possibly the most ambitious Pokémon game to date will be available early next year. Today Nintendo announced that Pokémon Legends: Arceus will be launching on the Nintendo Switch on January 28th, 2022. The game was first announced in February. Legends looks to be a big change for Pokémon, a franchise that’s become known for its… Read more

You can now hide like counts on Instagram and Facebook

You can now hide like counts on Instagram and Facebook. After years of testing on both platforms, Facebook and Instagram have settled on an opt-in experience for hiding like counts to allow people to disable seeing them across all posts and an option to hide their own public like counts from others. Instagram is enabling… Read more

Dell is offering $230 off one of its standout gaming monitors

Dell’s Summer Sale Event is officially underway, and if you’re looking for a 1440p panel to support your newfound gaming habits, the Dell 27 S2721DGF Gaming Monitor is an excellent bet. The 27-inch peripheral is currently on sale at Dell for $380 — more than $200 off the initial list price — and it touts… Read more

Asahi Linux Dev Reveals ‘M1RACLES’ Flaw in Apple M1, Pokes Fun at Similar Flaws

Home News (Image credit: Hector Martin) Asahi Linux developer Hector Martin has revealed a covert channel vulnerability in the Apple M1 chip that he dubbed M1RACLES, and in the process, he’s gently criticized the way security flaws have started to be shared with the public. Martin’s executive summary for M1RACLES sounds dire: “A flaw in… Read more

Intel Remains World’s Largest Chipmaker as AMD Enters Top 15

Home News (Image credit: Intel) While Intel’s revenue dropped in the first quarter, it is still the world’s largest supplier of chips by revenue, ahead of Samsung and TSMC, according to IC Insights. Intel’s arch-rival AMD significantly increased its sales in Q1 2021 and is now one of the world’s Top 15 semiconductor companies. Demand for… Read more

Actual photos* of Beats Studio Buds headphones surface ahead of launch

Home News (Image credit: MySmartPrice (source unknown) ) Eight days ago we reported that Apple was working on a Beats-branded set of true wireless headphones named ‘Beats Studio Buds’, as spotted in the 14.6 iOS and tvOS codes. Now – and most likely ahead of an impending official launch – the first actual (if unofficial) product images… Read more

Microsoft claims Edge is now ‘the best performing browser on Windows 10’

Microsoft is now claiming the performance crown in the desktop browser battle. The software maker has been gradually adding new features to Edge over the past year to improve performance and launch times. These additions have allowed Microsoft to claim itself the performance winner, even as Google releases Chrome 91 today. “Microsoft Edge will be… Read more